Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

Love is not a volunteer thing.

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.